After Manuel Zelaya took refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, the de facto government unleashed a strong chain of increasingly violent actions. With tear gas and mustard gas, they leveled homes and offices of social organizations illegally arresting people. Meanwhile demonstrations of people mounted throughout countries in Latin America denouncing the violence.

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Pressenza, Tegucigalpa, 2009-09-23

With 87 days of the coup d’etat, the Honduran people are suffering the worst escalation of violence. On a national level the main cities, towns, and villages are suffering repressions including the use of tear gas, fire arms, and beatings from the Honduran military. Meanwhile the Olympic Stadium of Honduras is being filled with hundreds of detainees. The actions are supposed to circumvent hundreds of thousands of Hondurans from gathering around the Brazilian embassy to reach President Manuel Zelaya.

Not withstanding, demonstrations against the de facto regime are being held in each neighborhood, district, and community, while police are using violence to contain them. Honduran citizens have reported that dozens of vehicles and motorcycles with paramilitary and assassins circulate “threateningly” through the main streets of Tegucigalpa.

Sources report that in the initial hours of Wedensday evening they attempted to level the Brazilian embassy in Honduras and capture President Zelaya, risking his death, along with 300 others inside with him. There are also reports claiming that it is planned to cut the electricity in the Embassy as well as the cell phone networks throughout the country, which has been denounced by the independent media.

Manuel Zelaya unexpectedly returned to the country nearly three months after being ousted by a military coup. According the Prensa Latina, Zelaya assured he has received definite indicators of the preparations to have him assassinated. It is precisely the zone where the Brazilian Embassy is completely militarized where the police destroyed homes contiguous to the Embassy compound, surrounding it completely. They also added that they met a forensic official in the area assigned to certify claims of Zelaya’s suicide, reports Prensa Latina. “If I die tonight, it would be due to a vile killing,” declaring Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales. “I will not commit suicide, I don’t have the calling to die in this way”, affirming the deposed President.

Meanwhile, international pressure grows demanding the violence of the de facto regime in Honduras cease. In Buenos Aires a demonstration is planned (Wednesday, September 23, at 6 pm), at the Brazilian embassy in Argentina to take actions to stop the repression against the Honduran people.

Pressenza IPA